Search for swimmer to resume

Police, the Harbourmaster and the
Coastguard continued to search the Waikato River until light
faded.

The Police National Dive Team have been contacted
and are expected to join the search in the morning.

No
further information will be available this evening.

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Earlier

Search underway for missing
swimmer

Police are urging everyone to take extra care
around water as another rescue gets underway for a missing
swimmer.

At approximately 6.15pm today police were
notified of a man missing near the Full James Rapids
downstream of the Aratiatia Dam on the Waikato River in
Taupo.

The man believed to be an Australian tourist in his
20s was staying in the area with a group of people. He went
for a swim and then started calling for help. A female
companion ran to the riverbank but the man disappeared from
view.

A Rapids Jet boat is currently searching the
waterway with Police and Coastguard personnel on board, The
Taupo Harbourmaster is utilising a jet ski and Taupo
Coastguard are also using a Mighty River Power rigid
inflatable.

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